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Captain Raymundo greeted us with a big grin and fist bumps. He was about to take me far out of …
There’s a candy shop that my family and I have patronized for years because it sells us stuff that we …
Tucked into the governor’s big education bill, Senate File 496, is a little discussed provision requiring Iowa students to take …
The pandemic altered our lives, and there’s no going back
Last week was an interesting week. On Sunday, my column detailing my experience being denied my appointment at the University …
Iowa, you make me cringe. I’ve just watched the Republican-controlled Iowa Legislature advance an agenda using the party’s almost total …
In my last article about the benefits of boosting urban populations in older northern cities in the East and Midwest, …
I was ordered to leave the building and escorted out by Coralville police.
As we wait to see which hyperpartisan bill clear a legislative funnel deadline this week, it’s remarkable that bipartisanship isn’t …
Even one instance of uttered hate speech against an individual can have detrimental, long-lasting effects on a person’s stability and ability to navigate life normally.
There’s a lot of pleasure to be found in the nearly 1,600-page state government reorganization bill, and most of it …
Around this time eight years ago, the state of Iowa began crawling with what a few of us call “presidential …
Iowa is a state that can’t say no to the ethanol industry. And that leaves some Republican lawmakers in a …
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